WSJ Live Presents: Sen. Ted Cruz Interviewed

3/13/2013 5:55PM

Freshman Senator Ted Cruz (R.,TX) appears in a new episode of "Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson" produced by the Hoover Institution. He discusses the Chuck Hagel controversy, the future of the Republican Party, and Cher.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

... I ... the the the the the the the the ... he has been called in these are all true to come from national newspapers the closure or in the court noted in a severe and it liquor ... and the prime illustration of what plagues the Republican party and ... he's been in office for ... two months ... today an uncommon knowledge the junior Senator from Texas Ted Cruz from Washington DC on common knowledge now ... the the the the ... welcome to one common knowledge now appearing on the website of the Wall Street Journal on Peter Robinson ... Rafael Eduard Cruze graduated from Princeton University and Harvard law school ... during the administration George W Bush he served at the Federal Trade Commission and that the Department justice ... in two thousand three he went home to Texas to service solicitor general ... position he held for five years and during which he himself appear before the Supreme Court of the United States ... nine times ... in July of last year Mr. Cruze defeated Lieutenant Governor David to hers ... for the Republican senatorial nomination ... and in the general election in November he defeated his Democratic opponent ... by fifteen points ... Santa Cruz well ... I keep interest rates be with him and thanking everyone and Hoover for hosting this this well I'm honored to be hit ... as I mentioned you mounted a primary challenge to TV to hers ... listen to David diverse positions ... pro life ... opposed to gay marriage ... help to enact one of the biggest tax cuts in Texas history ... and if elected to the Senate he promised he would repeal Obamacare balance the federal budget secure the blowout quarter and slashed ... that was his words slashed ... the federal government ... TV to Hurst was not conservative enough for you ... how come ... yes I think we're in an extraordinary time right now in this country ... I think the challenges we're facing are ... qualitatively different from challenges we face before we are facing ... economic and fiscal challenges our national debt is larger than our entire cup ... and the UN have the truth is ... there's a big part of how that happened ... was career politicians invoke arts ... I think one of the best things to happen to the Republican party ... was to get our teeth kicked in into thousandeight ... because an awful lot of Republicans I think and ... gonna long to get along ... with Democrats in exploding the size power and spending the federal government I think the biggest Devi ... is not even a divide between Republicans and Democrats ... it's a divide between the people ... and the entrenched elites in Washington are growing their own Pao ... and I think there is an incredible desire ... to get back to common sense conservative principles living within your means living within the Constitution ... and that was ultimately what was the field behind our campaign was the desire ... to have someone ... stand up and and ... defend those common sense ... and you communicated ... to the people of Texas but temperamental difference ... he said in effect ... on going to go to Washington to shake things up on the flavor is that correct ... I think that certainly write a mean that my my campaign focused on ... a proven conservative record that over and over again when I was serving as the solicitor general of Texas ... I had the opportunity serving under Greg Abbott the attorney general to stand up and fight for conservative principles ... on a national level and into one ... and ... you know I think a lot of conservatives are ... tired of ... leaders in Washington who don't know what they believe ... and can effectively stand up and and ... and and ... I think a nice change alright your two months in this town ... the New York Times headline geo he's nasty newcomer now ... a Texan particularly the New York Times ... op ... one of your colleagues Lindsey Graham fellow Republican told conservative man who has served in the sun for almost a decade ... Lindsey Graham of South Carolina had this to say about the whole ... you can be respected if you can throw a punch ... but you also have to prove you can do a deal close call ... Senator two months you have gotten even Lindsey Graham sono was out of July ... twenty oh two ... at ... the other two months I've been here ... I've been doing my job ... I've been doing what I think the citizens of Texas ... elected me to do which is killing stand for conservative principles ... and I have to admit the fact that the New York Times is this hysterical so quickly ... it may suggest that maybe were doing the right thing ... was a lot of this ... hysteria arises from a single moment ... which is during the chock a goal son of former Senator Chuck Paykel's ... confirmation hearing ... to be secretary of defense ... now ... let me set this up because this is an important question and there is one charge that really how are you almost have to answer would be my judgment ... this is you during the hearing quo he misses you talking the chart cables refusal to detail the sources of income from while he was in the private sector he took a few misses you he could not even say that the two hundred thousand receive for speeches and appearances ... did not come directly from foreign government ... it is at a minimum relevant to note that two hundred thousand dollars came directly from Saudi Arabia ... came directly from North Korea close call ... Senator Claire McCaskill and immediately said we had a terrible experience and Joe McCarthy and the United States Senate MSNBC is Chris Matthews I watch cruise in those hearings and I saw Joe McCarthy close call ... okay ... all so ... explain the point you are making in that hearing in the mothers know if you regret anything at all about the we you made the point ... well I think there were three substantive issues and ... that that that where ... at that point it's worth this was underscored my focus on Hazel consistently in my focus on hearings on guns among focus on everything else consistently remains ... on the record in the substance ... on the table ... you had number one his substantive foreign policy record ... they knew had his personal financial disclosures and then you hand the question of whether to what extent ... he received in directly funding from foreign sources ... now all of those I mean I began ... the question you pay going repeatedly had praised his personal character ... his service and sacrifice volunteering to fight for this country ... none of that has ever been much ... what's been in question is the substantive record in my view ... is substantive foreign policy record is extreme ... EAD is ... during his time in the Senate he was consistently the most antagonistic senator ... to the nation of Israel ... he consistently oppose sanctions ... or any form of credible military deterrence to the nation of Iran ... he opposed designating Hamas Hezbollah the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as terrorist organizations ... now those are extreme views the mean that's why the Washington Post characterized his record as quote ... near the fringe of the USA ... the store also the use that in my judgment ... if he is confirmed will only encourage the nation of Iran to accelerate its efforts to develop a nuclear weapon ... which I think sadly makes the chance of military conflict more likely an outlets like ... and I would like to avoid seeing our sons and daughters sent into harm's way ... and I think encouraging Iran develop nuclear weapons ... which this confirmation would do is is the wrong path he so my focus has consistently been on his substantive record ... now the second set of India's financial disclosure like ... as a member the Senate armed services Committee ... I along with twenty four other sectors ... requested the chock a goal provide additional financial disclosures in particular we requested to sex ... number one we asked him to disclose what personal ... compensation he's received ... over the last five years in excess of five thousand now ... and Number two he and disclose the number of different private firms that paid him substantial sums of money ... we ask of those for each ... to what extent did they receive their funding from foreign nations foreign ... lobbyist for corporations ... both I think very very reasonable sets of questions both questions ... that had been asked before ... for example Hillary Clinton ... when she was nominated ... to be secretary of state she voluntarily disclosed eight years of prior compensation ... yet somehow the New York Times says it is objectively unreasonable ... for twenty five senators after five years from Taipei ... his response to this request from twenty five senators ... was to detail ... tell them essentially the job like ... he simply said no he said ... my Pursell compensation I'm paraphrasing here but ... it is complete control we had that his fingertips ... he can handed over he simply said no I refuse to tell you ... what money and pay ... and with respect to the ... private firms that paid in funds that were seven that we asked ... six he said ... that he could represent the money they paid him was not misses his term called for in Iraq ... the seventh ... he couldn't even make that representations to the point I was making the U S cannot Sirius is under your own language in said Sept six of them didn't pay you for and Iran funds which means the seventh one ... if you're not willing to say that it meets the obvious inference ... that it may well have been foreign derive now as I said ... in that very same hearing in none of the people attacking play this ... a sale of it may be perfectly appropriate ... to him directly that foreign funds if the if the nation of Canada ... had invested some money in your doing timber deals I'll think that would raise any concerns ... from a national security perspective but the point for us ... it isn't a minimum relevant to know whether the Secretary of Defense has received ... in directly substantial sums from foreign governments now the response to all of us ... has not been to debate Paykel's record and it's not been to provide any of that financial disclosure ... instead it's been a ... company ... of criticisms directed me in and look that's fine that's that's Washington ... um ... I've got thick skin ... U S is there anything I regret what I do regret ... is that they were successful in their strategy ... of changing the topic and ... they didn't wanna talk about Chuck cable substantive foreign policy record because it's extreme and dangerous ... and they didn't want to talk about his refusal to provide basic financial disclosure because I think is ... very difficult to defend on the merits so instead ... they started banning about personal charges in and their favorite is his McCarthy is ... right for asking someone to disclose the money they'd been paid before they serve as the chief ... civilian leader for US military ... I think it was designed to distract ... and unfortunately it had some success in this track DVT joining thing about the way Washington works ... did you get hit by Hammers that he didn't know were there all you know I think the New York Times thinks they have a hammer ... they have more of that that that ... I ... I'm going to try to make up yet ironically enough it you know they they seem to believe that the criticism in the New York Times ... somehow her shoe back in Texas ... that is ... if the New York Times who really wanted to do damage ... they would start praising me everyday that would get Texans know what the heck are you doing wrong ... but I have to tell you the reader actually them the most ... probably Ser real criticism ... has been from share ... share Shearer has begun between being excessively about me I have to tell you ... aam what would be appropriate reading about to come ... I would say none whatsoever ... but that she has begun attacking the in in very personal ways on on Twitter not have to say number one night I ... surely never thought ... of ... that share would be saying anything ... aam and number two a half to admit this is the first time ever I have been called the Gypsy trippers the ... the the ... and then for the fact checkers out there that was a joke she did not in fact call me that because surely Kalitta fact will say ... that joke was not not based ... one of them a quick way of summarizing your own positions ... is to sit through a couple of measures that you've already had the opportunity to vote ... against ... you are one of thirty four senators who voted against raising the debt ceiling ... Ofcom ... because the proposal to raise the debt ceiling ... didn't cut any spending at all ... what we're doing in this country ... I think is fundamentally more ... I mean we're settling our kids or grandkids ... with crushing debt ... and ... this said I think it is far more ... remarkable that sixty plus ... senators voted voted to raise the debt ceiling without putting a penny spent ... you know with a month just three senators to vote against the confirmation of John Kerry Secretary of State ... oh come on one ... I think John Kerry's record ... of ... in particular he is repeatedly supported international organizations international treaties that I think of undermined U S sovereignty ... and so I couldn't in good conscience ... both foreign and in fact the standard I applied to him was was the John Kerry standard it was the same standard ... John Kerry applied when he voted against Khona Liza writes it was the same standard John Kerry applied when he voted against Alberto than silence ... it was the same standard be applied when a vote against Michael me Casey and that's fine ... I will point out that there was a difference ... Kerry's views are ... very much on the left ... there was a difference between Boeing against John Kerry ... and chock a goal sheets ... which are qualitatively different from where John Kerry's record has been ... chock a goal to be used for to clear the Defense Department in my judgment ... led to ... the necessity for far greater scrutiny in terms of his ... pants substantive foreign policy ... you are one of thirty six senators who oppose relief package for the region's struck by Hurricane Sandy ... and and this one if you would imagine explaining yourself to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ... well I'm sure that would be a lively conversation ... at ... the other the Sandy relief package was a perfect example of what's wrong ... with washed ... just about everyone in Washington agrees that we should have for me for an area that was truck struck with that tragic store ... what happened to get a bunch of politicians they just ... put ... tons of pork billions and billions of dollars of spending on that package ... that had nothing to do with Sandy ... substantial amounts of money in that package worth being spent in the Northeast where Sandy was hit ... and they were being spends much of the decade from now no spending a decade from now ... you know my dictionary at least doesn't call that emergency relief spend ... I became a Christmas tree became a Christmas tree ... four am every politician that wanted to get his or her ... pork spending in that the bill week we had an amendment that I supported ... that that would have offset that spending with spending cuts and the problem is ... in Washington there's a bipartisan ... opposition to actually ... constraining the growth of spending and I think that's ... dangerous it is back to what I've talked about before ... the euro ... if you get ... outside the Beltway get to go to America ... it ... is not ... an extreme position ... to wanna live within your means ... it is not an extreme position ... to not want to bankrupt ... the country ... and and those views are shared an auction shared by Republicans their shared by independents and Democrats ... you know most of us if if we ran our lives there are businesses ... the way the federal government ... with the bankruptcy be sleeping in her branch ... listen to this list Ted Cruz of Texas Rand Paul of Kentucky marker Rubio a Florida Patrick Toomey a Pennsylvania Jeff flake of Arizona Mike Lee of Utah ... Ron Johnson in Wisconsin Tim Scott of South Carolina ... all really put all relatively new to the Senate ... all truly conservative ... Chris Chocola president of the club for growth remarked recently ... that you and your young cohort have begun re re defining what it means to be a Republican ... in the Senate ... and so I ask you ... two months into this job isn't the case ... if you actually have designs on the institution itself ... and what should it need to be Republican in the United States and ... well ... I think Republicans ... need to get back to our core principles ... he is not a question of of a redesigning what it means to be Republican it's a question of re discovery ... getting back to common sense conservative principles came back to the principles ... that that ... Raul Reagan embrace so far ... Chrome who ... yes sadly there a lot of people in the Senate who say that same day ... aam and ... we have a great strength ... our policy to work on conservative home does happen your ego in a ... hurry to emerge fully formed when a lot of people are still trying to figure things out ... this happened while I painted a big part of who I miss my family so ... my dad's from Cuba ... he fought the revolution when he was a teenager he was imprisoned and tortured by Batiste discomfort ... he was beaten almost to death ... and and he fled Cuba in nineteen fifty seven ... came to Texas was eighteen years old couldn't speak English ... wash dishes ... making fifty cents an hour pay its way through college ... when I started small business ... sometime ago while my wife Heidi and I were having dinner with some friends and enhance this again when did you first get interested in politics ... and I scratched my hand did you know I don't ... really remember what I was and I'm not sure was ... and Heidi ... begins laughing ... and in you know how sometimes so often ... your spouse will see things that are blatantly obvious and yet you're to choose to notice them yourself ... and she looks at me says well no wonder ... think of a family you were raised when ... and I will tell you he is an enormous blessing ... to be the child of an immigrant Chief letterpress ... because of our dinner table when I was two three for five years all ... there was an urgency on techs there was a was and just pick up the paper ... well that's interesting this is what's happening ... principled men and women in all this is what keeps us from terrorists he was not again be the matters that can ... be when you seen ... Liberty taken away ... you realize how precious and fragile it isn't as Reagan famously said ... it's not something pass them on the bloodstream ... every generation has to step up ... and defend our liberty and that ... it ever since I was a child what what ... I'd wanted and hope to do was to to defend it ... free market principles to defend the Constitution ... the principles that have led to this being the greatest nation on the history of the earth ... and presenting the greatest opportunity ... of any nation on ... Senator Ted Cruz quoted in National review call ... status ... have talented people drawn to politics because they believe in our ... but for conservatives there has always been an incredible scarcity of effective ... principled ... defenders ... of liberty close ... call ... why is that the case ... here suggesting that there's almost a structural advantage ... on the left ... he if you're a child of the last ... you go into politics ... you go in the media ... go into entertainment ... the left controls the avenues of communication by the US ... of culture ... Barack Obama is the epitome ... of the ideal left ... on the rise ... the look of most of the young talented conservatives whether they get becoming money ... the going private sector to go start a business they go work ... productively making widgets ... and ... you know ... the you gotta have a loose it seems ... to wanna go into politics I can't tell you how many conservatives instead of ... Cowen their right mind ... would jump into this business for two months into the job ... you getting attacked by share ... and that over time ... I think it's ... conservatives often underestimate ... the power and transmission of ideas ... crews to says George will know a new cruise believes the reaction against Barack Obama will give the Republican party a hundred ... to take their bearings from constitutional law as it was before the new deal judicial revolution close call ... so do you feel ... that even as somewhere I saw that he said that it was Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan ... is Barack Obama ... this a long list that we can mourn about the real election re-election of Barack Obama ... that ... you ... see Barack Obama calling for to determine a country of opponents ... you yes or you see at both ... aam and listen to me start by saying something that with that with surprise ... some of its detractors ... I respect Brock a bomb ... when repeat that please ... I respect Brock Obama I think he is deeply principal ... and I think he's been tremendously affected advancing its principles I actually of many times disagreed with some conservative critics to ... who paid him in disparaging terms I think this is a man who believes in ... all of this park ... in government control of the economy ... and our day-to-day lives who is working on a daily basis to transform the sky is the principled man ... talent is deeply principled ... and he's also willing to sacrifice for those principles ... if you rewind the clock ... the two thousandnine two thousand and it was abundantly obvious with Obamacare ... when Obamacare was being pushed with gubernatorial elections in Virginia ... and New Jersey both of which had been blew both of which became red and then we saw a national referendum effectively on Obamacare ... with Ted Kennedy's former seat in Massachusetts where the People's Republic of Massachusetts elected a Republican ... at that point I think there is no doubt had Bill Clinton been president ... he was said abandon ship ... he would've done the the pragmatic to see him now we're going to get healed we the Democrats pushing Obamacare ... let's stop doing and I actually respect ... that I think present Obama knew there would be an incredible price to be paid if the polls ... for forcing Obamacare ... down the voters routes despite their strong opposition to it ... and ... he believes in its principles and in with the brand he said his objective ... was to have been sent to leave the fundamental transformation of this country ... that he meant it then and I'd take him at his word and I respect him ... for being committed to its principles I also think those principles are profoundly dangerous they don't work ... but I have no doubt that President Obama ... sleeps a PC every night that he believes he is improving the country is making things better ... the problem is I just think the sorely missed in ... an article titled puts it in the current issue of commentary magazine how this is the Republican party this is by former George W Bush The first Michael Gerson people in ... call ... a new Republican agenda requires a party to welcome ... rising immigrant groups ... the GOP has taken in the show genuine concern namely the lack of border security and spoken about it ... in ways offenses ... to vast numbers of Hispanics ... and Asian Americans close call and I know ... that you got thirty five percent of Hispanic vote in Texas which is a percent less than John Cornyn received ... when he ran into thousandeight and peeing Cuban ... well ... no actually that polling was from a source that day beforehand though those numbers a little suspect ... at you know what I can tell you ... is ... two things number one there's no doubt ... as Republicans we get into better job in the Hispanic ... and if we don't the Republican party will not remain a national party ... for all ... period ... period ... let me also say though ... that that that I think ... the media wants to focus this attention entirely ... on immigration and immigration is important and happy to talk about it ... and there is no doubt that the Republicans who ... on immigration has been ... less than productive ... people are gonna vote for him ... if they think you don't like ... self deportation would not be the theme of the day ... and ... but the but let me tell you something that I think is is far more important so so we've done extensive polling in the Hispanic community in Texas to figure out our what are the values ... what are the issues that mattered to them ... we asked Hispanic voters in Texas to name their number one issue you know what percentage named immigration is the number one issue ... on ... Fox ... fifty four percent of Hispanic voters in Texas and their number one issue ... was jobs in the top ... and in my view the reason we got clobbered in the last election across the board ... in particular that we get clobbered among ... Hispanics among young people ... comes down to work Ch ... forty seven percent ... now to let me be clear what I mean I don't mean ... the comments that ... I don't mean ... that ill fated comment any body who if you stick a TV camera someone's face twenty four hours a day seven days a week anyone will make an ill advised ... adding men Romney is is a good and decent man ... who worked very very hard to escape ... but what I mean once a forty seven percent is why we lost ... is the narrative the last election ... the overall narrative of the last election was the forty seven percent who are dependent on government ... we'll have to worry about ... an identity as a conservative I can't think of an idea ... more antithetical ... to what ideas we believe for one thing ... it buys in to the liberal notion that the economic pie is fixed that is static ... that the that forty seven percent today is the same it will be tomorrow in the next ... and you know with that premise is right if the economic pie never changes ... then the central liberal argument for redistributing wealth ... has a lot of force to keep the pie is an ever changing it's very hard to justify ... why some should enjoy so much while others have salute ... now what we understand is the premise ... he's deeply flawed that it is a dynamic and growing ... up ... and in fact that the free market system we have in this country ... has produced greater prosperity greater opportunity ... than any economic system in the history of the world ... I think we should be the party Republican should be the party ... although the forty seven percent of those climbing the economic ladder ... and I think we did a core Obel horrible job ... of of Lane enamored of winning than our ... one more quotation from this article and see the Republican Party Republicans oppose same sex marriage and in deference to traditional family structures but among the largest portion of the rising ... generation ... this appears to be losing ... battle clothes quilts on the social issues ... the marriage ... abortion ... of ... the GOP is just on the wrong side of history ... yell ... if it were up to the medium ... that would've been the case a long long time ago I have ... at the mine ideal is very much like like ... Mark Twain's of rumors of the death ... of conservatives I think are greatly it a great exact ... what I will tell you ... I think the existential threat facing this country right now ... he's the out of control spending and deficits and debt ... that are threatening the future of our kids and grandkids and so I spent a great deal of time ... talking about what I call opportunity conservatives ... which is that conservatives should conceptualize and articulate every domestic policy ... with laser focus ... on easing the means of a sense of the economic ladder that we should deal policy ... throw rolls Elan how busy the impact of those ... who were the least well off among us ... and ... what we've done a terrible job of doing is explaining that the policies of the left do not work ... and they systematically hurt those of the modern economic ladder litigating example Peter ... we just recently saw the stated the Union address ... which wasn't instead of reaching out for bipartisan cooperation of pro growth policies which I hope he might do ... it was unabashed liberal assuming embrace things like cap and trade ... like more Obamacare ... like raising the minimum wage ... and you know my reaction on hearing all of that if every one of those policies if those were in town ... they would make it harder for young people ... come in at a school to find a for shop ... they would make it harder for Hispanics and African Americans struggling to climb the economic ladder ... to reach more success they would make it harder for everyone ... working towards the American dream to achieve ... to give a specific example let's take a minimum way ... if President Obama gets twenty one C Jackson the minimum wage to nine dollars we know a couple of things will happen in their absolute ... in controversial number one youth unemployment will go up ... number two African American and one that will go up and Hispanic unemployment will go up ... when my dad ... fifty five years ago ... was an eighteen year old kid washing dishes ... it got the job he couldn't speak English union have speak English to wash dishes ... he was paid fifty cents ... if President Obama to head is way for minimum wage even two dollars instead of fifty cents an hour my dad never got to ... if they hadn't gotten a job because of his way through school ... he couldn't have ... eventually gone on to start a small business ... these policies ... of the Obama administration they don't work ... and the people they hurt the mulch ... our young people African-American Hispanic single women ... those struggling to achieve the American dream ... and as conservatives we have got to learn ... to understand ... to explain ... Senator last question ... as you know ... it is a great deal of talk about the need for the Republican party to reinvent itself ... Ronald Reagan left office a quarter century ago ... and listen to what a profile in mother Jones said about you ... another popular ... publications I come in Texas and sure ... called for all the talk of cruises the GOP candidate of the future ... there's something anachronistic in what you sell ... Costco ... so not hers was going to happen ... on going to play a very brief clip ... but it's a very ... old clip ... and I'd like you to listen to that clip and then tell us ... how you believe the Republican party should just get ... past it ... not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee ... a businessman who would escape from castor ... and in the midst of a story one of my friends turn to the other is that we don't know how lucky we are ... in the Cuban stopped and said how lucky you are ... I had someplace to escape to ... and in that sentence he told us the entire story ... if we lose freedom here there's no place to escape to the tothe blessed and honored ... and this idea that government is beholden to the people that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people ... it's still a no was in the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man ... so Senator we just get over that ... the problem is we did get over that for awhile ... and we don't and we shouldn't if they think it's anachronistic to look back to Reagan look back a la mom and ... I look back to the Constitution look back to the declaration ... I look back to basic principles of human freedom of trade ... president Reagan they're telling that story ... when I was a kid ... my dad said to me over and over and over again when we face depression in Cuba ... I had a place to flee ... if we lose our freedom here when we get ... mean that is ... the American experience all of us everyone of us we're the children grandchildren ... of those who fled oppression and came here seeking free ... the I have to tell you just a few weeks ago ... when I rested my hand upon the Bible to take the oath of office ... I couldn't help but think back ... to fifty five years earlier ... to my dad is an eighteen year old kid on able to speak English Washington ... if someone had told that the onion ... fifty five years hence ... your son will be sworn in as the United States senator representing the great state of Texas ... to put it in utterly on to ... it with and the odd ... anything he could reasonably conceived and yet ... there was my father sitting in the gallery looking down as I took the oath of office and in that ... period taken in my life and my family that was that was a powerful powerful moment ... but it's a very small example ... the incredible opportunity ... this country provides there is a reason ... millions of people from all over the world ... have risked everything to come here because no one the country under ... has provided the opportunity ... for so many to start with nothing ... and achieve anything that's what we gotta get back ... the economic mobility that lets people start with nothing achieve the American dream ... that's what's being jeopardized and that's what I think we as conservatives ... need to defend every single ... Ted Cruz Junior Senator from Texas ... thank you the the the the the the the the the the ... the dollar ... the ... the the ... in ... I ...